The Low Hangin Fruit Tour | First Ten Done

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Hello all.... I have been trying out the low hangin fruit keywords, writing articles, submitting them to SA and stand back and watch what happens....I started on this tour on 8/15/2012 with my first article on my way to ten of them, all low hangin fruit keywords and all submitted to Street Articles....

I used Jaaxy for my keyword research and goole trends.

Here are my results:

The numbers represent..................................... Monthly Traffic QSR and SEO.....

Article one: "where to get marketing experience"...... 79 14 0
two: "importance of search rankings" ......................128 22 0 85
three: "training the older worker"............................. 164 28 52
four: "retire young not old"....................................... 128 22 11 90
five: "anchor text and backlinks..............................." 394 67 217 92
six: "ideas for writing and article'.............................. 164 28 71 88
seven: "planning retirement your 40"........................ 164 28 0 90
eight: "first steps to starting and online business"...... 171 30 27 84
nine: "how many words are enough" .........................100 28 0 85
ten: "is this a real career" ............................................164 28 13

The Ranking:
........................................................................................Ranking last taken 9/1/2012
:

1/ 1st page next day................................................ ten pages nothing
2/ 4th place first page next day...................... .......5th place first page
3/ 8th page next day...3rd page three days later... page 4 6th place
4/ 1st place same day 1 hour ................................still 1st place first page
5/ page 4 one day later ............................................ten pages back nowhere
6/ no where did not rank......................................... still nothing ten pages back
7/ 1st page next day 4th place .................................5th place first page
8/ 1st page 10th place............................................... 2nd page 9th place
9/ 1st place 1st page ....................................................1st place 1st page
10/ 10 pages back nothing......................................... ten pages back nothing

From having these articles publilshed at Street Articles so far I have had 11 hits from these articles...
I have not noticed any increase in traffic due to the articles rankings as of yet.....at least nothing very noticeable.....

From another campaign for another site for one of my articles I have a 12% turn around for this one article that has been on first page for it kw for months now....4th place.....

Question: For the kw that has been on page one for months now.....I wrote relevant articles and published them with other than SA.....linked my article to the article at SA....it made this article get up to first page and has stood the test of time so far....
I have recieved one answer for this method and as I suspected it still seems to be a method that is viable today.....wanting to be sure as do not want the rath of google on me for repeating this and they now deem this to be voodo....panda penquin....I believe that is is a viable method....
Please if this is setting off warning bells for others please speak up....

As I tend to go to 20 articles in this fashion. think I will start aiming for a higher QSR and see if I can make them get to page one wiht this method of linking to SA articles with relevant article from other places, if it is still sound to do so, to see if I can get more traffic this way and keep my articles on page one longer, up my opportunity for traffic....

Now rush of traffic to my site, as you can see not yet.....

My one article that I mentionded that is on ifrst page for months sends traffic to my site in spurts but constantly recieving traffic although not a lot at once, it can sit there for years and do just that....

This is the goal for this campaign....to set up a string of artices in or on first page and let them do what they do......

If anyone has a bettter solution or perhaps a warning or a story they would like to share about my Low Hangin Fruit Tour....Please share with us all.....










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Hi Tim -

I agree with Christian. Generally the CTR with Street Articles is very low and although people may hit well with odd articles - I think that is more of a rarity than the norm. I base that on the number of pms I receive and comments that I have seen in here about it. People are constantly disappointed with their CTR and although it may be some don't have a huge readership, I do and it's still poor.

I find the linking rules consistently inconsistent and it's an issue that I've raised with Kyle. In fact I had an article rejected today giving me an example of how I should link, which was exactly what was rejected last week and accepted the week before. I've just given up on that front.

Because of the poor CTR I don't write as consistently for Street Articles as I did. As Christian has pointed out, it is annoying to see all those adverts with call to actions next to what I've written attracting or distracting the eye away from what I've posted. I don't rely on them for traffic - just to create a backlink

In terms of getting ranked on page 1 - I find that easy and would be disappointed if they didn't.

I cannot agee more on the CTR being way to low, with ten articles written and what is ranking and not ranking on the first page does not seem to be worth the amount of time I put into this...at least not yet...if ever....convertions from SA well ????? can't see the rush coming maybe a few stranglers???....will one or two work and get me traffic...maybe....but how long will it take and how many articles need to be written for this to make it worthwhile....?

My articles had some good rankings that seem to hold and some that were just not doing much at all or slipped ranks fast.....I see no traffic from them at all.....

As I know you have a lot of experience with SA and article marketing in general....I thank you for your comments......With your advice and my findings and the others that have commented all seem to be in the same frame of mind.....agreed I think there are better ways for me to spend my time and more productive places to set my sites on and see what happens....backlinks they do provide them....most important aspect maybe not but I think they still have there place....

Thanks for your thoughts Beverley...

Here is the problem with Street Articles as I see it.

The rules that Street Articles applies to its article make it of little value to a marketer, but of great value to Street Article's ability to make money through advertising.

When I published on Ezine Articles I routinely expected a 10% CTR and I usually got that or more.

Because Street Articles limits your ability to give a clear call to action, I am lucky to get a 2% - 3% CTR. On top of this, Street Articles doesn't allow you to use your article elsewhere for more link juice.

These rules allow Street Articles to rank well which in turn increases the revenue Street Articles generates from advertising--which, by the way, means that your article will be displayed on a page full of your competitor's advertisements which all will have very clear calls to action.

In other words, you are supplying the content so that Street Articles can attract visitors and then sell advertising to them. You, of course, get a few clicks and 2 inbound links in return.

The current landscape has again turned to favor Squidoo and I would bet dollars against doughnuts that you could take the same content and publish it on Squidoo lenses and have results that would amaze you.

Just do some searches for affiliate products and count the number of Squidoo lenses on or near the first page compared to Street Articles or any other web 2.0 pages.

As far as getting to page one quickly, it would do us all well to remember that choosing keywords like "Eastern Bolivian Camel Sweat" will rank very very fast, but to what benefit?

All good points Christian. Another aspect to look at is the simple math of the situation.

If you get your article into the top 4 SERP's it is accepted you will receive a minimum of 17% of the traffic, and it could get as high as 50% for the number 1 position.

So for every 100 people who search your KW you can expect 17 -50 people to get to your article. Now consider your CTR on your article : average seems to be somewhere around 4 to 5%.

Calculate what 5% of 17 visits(the minimum) is and you get : 0.85...lets round up and say 1 person
Now do 5% of 50 visits(the maximum) =2.5 people thru to your website.....

Even if you double your CTR from the article to your website to 10% , the traffic you can expect is 2 to 5 views.......and you still haven't "sold" them anything!!

So when Fishing says "...Now rush of traffic to my site, as you can see not yet....."
I personally would not be holding my breathe :(

Compare this with ranking your own website in the top4 SERPs :
17 % of 100 = 17
50% of 100 =50
This represents 8 to 10 times the traffic you would get via an article...

Yes, I know it can be harder to rank your own website (this can be overcome by using Jay's techniques displayed in his WAbinars!!) It is simply better to rank your own site if you want the traffic....and hence the sales.

One thing that is constantly reinforced and yet people do not think about is : " Build YOUR business, not someone elses business"

This may change at some stage in the future, but for me, here and now, the numbers don't lie. Article directories are good for backlinks only, unless they provide a direct means to raise revenue, like Squidoo does.

Cheers, Phil

I am seeing this in my first ten articles, not to say these are my first articles, but I really kept track of these articles more than any other article....so can make a better more informed decision on how this method is working out.....not so great....getting articles to number one is achievable pending the keyword....but like you mentioned what good is it doing...???

if my goal and it is or was, to attract more traffic this method is looking like it is going to take me somel time to achieve this.....so of course something must change.....

I have a hubpages account have not tried squiddo as of yet......opeining my eyes up to other possibiltites....and better places for me to spend my writing time....

This is the reason I took the tour to see excatly what good it was doing me.....will another then do better....could very well....I think not though....is it worth all the writing to maybe get one article to stay on top and get a very few traffic from it....sounds like to much work for me...

So far as I can tell at this stage, I am much better to write my best content for my site and leave SA for a backlinking stradegy...

I have wrote a few for EZ, waiting for a reply...one week way to long....lets see how this one will do....more traffic from it.....I think again making a better backlink....we will see...

So besides more and better articles for my site....I think that squiddo is in order to see what happens lets try five articles for them and see what happens...

Thanks for your Comments Christian.....

Sorry I have got these comments backwards, Phil that is meant for Christian and Christian this is meant for Phil ....

It seems that all seem to be in agreement that this is not going to be a productive way to recieve a lotl of traffic.....

I agree this is not looking to be what I thought or wanted it to turn out to be....nothing ventured nothinig gained..... good experiment....lets do something else and see how that increases my traffic......

More quality articles for my site I thiink should be my focus...oif course.....like I mentioned I have to see if Squido will do me some good.....

Thanks Phil for your thouhgts....

Hi Tim,
I don't want to discourage you from writing, just maybe change how many articles you write for your site rather than article directories. I go with a 4 or 5 to one ratio in favor of my site. The key is getting your site ranked, so pay close attention to what Jay does.

Here is another thought for you.... if articles produce such a low ratio of visitors to your site verses the search volume and backlinks are(or have already??) become a less important part of googles algorithm....how is the time invested in writing for article directories going to benefit you?

Keep testing / experimenting because in the end it is very much a decision made by the individual.

Cheers, phil

You make a good point Phil the main goal is the highest ranking possible and to gain the most traffic as possible through any White Hat method...if writing articles is not goiing to do it and backlinks are not the mainstay of the alogarithim.....I am leaning on more concentration on he site content instead of directories.....I will give squidoo a few and see what happens....more traffic the better if can get it....trial and error....but site content relevant and quality is the bomb....just looking for a little bit of the wick....:) Thanks for your thoughts Phil....

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